Matrix or type bar or holder.



E. E. WILSON.

MATRIX 0R TYPE BAR 0R HOLDER.

APPLICMION FILED APR. n. 1916.

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6 Z6? 9 a m 4 L 4 fi 7 i EDWARD E. WILSON, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MATRIX 0R TYPE BAR OR HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1917.

Application filed April 11, 1916. SerialNo. 90,412.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD E. VVILsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Matrix or Type Bars or Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has special reference to matrix or' type bars or holders or bodies used in type setting or slug casting machines in which matrix or type bars or bodies carrying one or more matrices or type letters are independently used and stored in magazines orretainers, and delivered singly by the action of pressure on finger-keys representing the various characters on a common keyboard, and assembled in a line, a mold taken therefrom, or the line transferred to a slotted mold, the mold filled with molten metal, producing a slug with a surface of letters, words or characters to be used in printing, and the bars or bodies containing the matrices or type returned to the magazines or retainers from which they started.

More particularly my invention relates to the employment of a number of fonts or sets of type or type matrices, of different sizes and styles of face, arranged in such manner that any font or number of fonts may be brought into action at will, so that lines may be reproduced on a slug with faces rep resented by the matrices or type contained on any one bar or body, or by a combination of faces represented by the matrices or type contained on any number of bars or bodies.

For this purpose I employ a series of matrices or type bars or bodies of various thicknesses, which I illustrate in my drawings, by reference to which it will be seen that I have arranged my matrices or type letters in or on a matrix'or type bar or body in such manner that one or several fonts of matrices or type letters may be carried in a series of these matrix or type bars, by means of which the matrices or type letters are stored in and operated from magazines or retainers of a line assembling or line casting machine.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention as applied to produce the general results, but I desire it to be distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to any particular or specific form of construction except in so far as such limitations are specifically specified in the claims, and that, should I wish to change certain constructions without interfering with the principles of my invention as herein set forth, I desire that to be my privilege and right. The invention embodies a multiple arrangement of type or type matrix plates slidably mounted in carrying bars or bodies, so arranged that each type letter or type matrix plate will be movable, separate and independent from any other type letter or type-matrix plate contained in the bar or body which is carried in magazines or retainers or any other suitable construction of storage, formed into lines, casts taken therefrom, or those lines carried to a mold and molten metal then forced or poured onto the face of the type or into the matrices, and a slug with a printing surface cast therefrom and delivered by any means whatsoever, and the type or matrix bars or bodies returned to their proper channels and distributed in magazines, retainers or the like.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a face view of one of the matrices or type letters.

Fig. 2 is side view thereof.

Fig. 2 is a top View thereof.

Fig. 3 is a side view of the holder or bar with the matrices therein.

Fig. 4 is a face view of the same.

Figs. 5 and 6 are sections on the lines 5-5 and 66 respectively of Fig. 3.

Figs. 7 and 8 are enlarged details of the same in side and front elevation.

Fig. 9 is a side view of the bar for blank matrlces or spaces and quads.

Fig. 10 is a section of two half blank type bodies or matrix plates between which a common wedge spacer or space band may be inserted for justifying.

Fig. 10 is a section of one of the half bars.

Fig. 11 is a side elevation of one of the bars with parts removed.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a matrix or type block bearing the face of the letter or character, and this block has dovetail upper and lower sides as indicated at 6*, and a projecting back lug or foot 6 These charactered blocks or matrices may contain faces of different fonts as illustrated, and a plurality thereof are r tends rearwardly and is centered with respect to the sides of the block or body, and when they are assembled in the holder the dovetail edges fit in dovetail grooves 13 between projections on the holder bar, the rear lugs or projections 6 fitting into mortises or recesses 14: in the bar, the bodies being held in place by spring tongues 9 projecting from thin plates 9 secured to opposite, sides of the bar 7, as by screws 10. The matrices selected from different fonts are thus held one above the other on the face of the holder bar.

In Fig. 9 one of the blank bars is shown, with side plates 20 attached thereto, and a blank matrix or block 18 held in position thereon, these blanks being used for spaces or quads. In Figs. 10 and 10 the holder bar is made in two parts 7 or split lengthwise, so that a common wedge spacer or space band may be inserted, to press the halves apart, so as to justify a line, by permitting the blanks to be squeezed over against the adjoining bodies, the spring tongues yielding sufliciently to permit this movement, in the event that the matrix body of the adjoining holder is of less width than normal.

The mortises are so arranged, and the faces are so placed on the block, that they will all line up at the top, to bring the characters to proper alinement when the bars are assembled for casting.

In the use of the device, for example, a number of fonts of different faces are selected, and a number of blocks containing the same letter, all about the same width, are assembled on the bar or body, regardless of the style of the, face or the depth of the letter, and so on until the letters of all the fonts are assembled in a series of bars. One of the side plates 9 is removed from each bar while theyare being assembled. Then the side plate is replaced and fastened by the screws. Any variation in the width of the letters may be accommodated by using the split bars as shown in Fig. 10, carrying spaces or quads. Each font carries these blanks, and by the use of an ordinary wedge space band inserted between the halves, justification may be effected.

The invention is not limited to the spe cial construction illustrated and described.

\Vhat I claim as new is:

1. The combination of a holder bar having recesses along one face thereof, a removable side plate extending across said recesses, and separate impression bodies having projections fitting in said recesses and held therein by said side plate.

2. A matrix or type holder bar having recesses extending across the same along one face thereof adapted to hold matrix or type bodies, and side plates on the bar having spring tongues adapted to engage the sides of said bodies.

3. The combination of a holder bar having a row of undercut grooves across the face thereof, and a plurality of impression bodies assembled on said face and having projections engaged in said grooves.

at. The combination of a holder bar having a row of undercut grooves across one face thereof and recesses behind said grooves, and a plurality of impression bodies assembled on said face and having projections fitting in said grooves and lugs fitting in said recesses.

5. The combination of a holder bar having a row of undercut grooves across one face thereof and recesses behind said grooves, and a plurality of impression bodies assembled on said face andhaving, projections fitting in said grooves and lugs fitting in said recesses and side plates on said bar, having tonguesbeside the recesses, engaging said lugs.

In testimony whereof, I do affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDIVARD E. WILSON.

Vitnesses JOHN A. BOMMI-IARDT,

G. W. ROSENBERG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

